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The Himalayas belong to which of the following categories of mountains?
Plateau Mountain
Fault-block Mountain
Fold Mountain
Dome Mountain
Which one of the following groups of landforms are erosional features?
Stalagmites, Natural levees, Stacks, Talus
Corrie, Yardang, Gorge, Sinkholes
Natural bridges, Beaches, Eskers, Star dunes
Flood plain, Morains, Calderas, 'U' shaped valley
Consider the following substances:
1. Graphite
2. Salt
3. Limestone
4. Mica
How many substances mentioned above are examples of Minerals?
1
2
3
4
Which one of the following statements about metamorphic rocks is not correct?
Due to segregation of minerals into wavy bands or platy surfaces, some metamorphic rocks develop foliations.
Where the foliations develop into broad mineral bands, the metamorphic rock is extremely hard.
Where the foliations are moderately thin, the metamorphic rock tends to flake apart.
Rocks that originally were composed of one dominant mineral are often foliated by metamorphism.
Consider the following geographical factors:
1. Weathering
2. Erosion
3. Metamorphism
How many of them are responsible for the transformation of rocks?
None
Slow bending, folding, warping, and fracturing are indicators of which one of the following processes?
Denudation
Endogenetic process
Diastrophism
Mountain building
Consider the following pairs
Agent Erosional Landforms
1. Wind Zeugen
2. Glacier Inselberg
3. River Canyon
4. Air Cirque
How many of the above-given pairs is/are correctly matched?
Only one pair
Only two pairs
Only three pairs
All four pair
In which one of the following regions the chemical weathering process is more dominant than the mechanical process?
Limestone region
Arid region
Humid region
Glacier region
Consider the following pairs:
Regions sometimes mentioned in news: Country
1. Donetsk and Luhansk Ukraine
2. Nusantara Indonesia
3. Demchok Bhutan
4. Bhasan Char Bangladesh
Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
1, 2 and 3 only
1, 2 and 4 only
1 and 3 only
2 and 4 only
With reference to the continent of Africa, which of the following is common to the following countries?
1. Egypt
2. Sudan
3. Ethiopia
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
The three countries share border with the Red Sea.
The Sahara desert is spread across these three countries.
These are three of the many countries through which the river Nile passes.
The Tropic of Cancer passes through these three countries.
